The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 18, 1953, Page 10

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, June 18, 1953 I DON’T LIKE THIS! MAY BE THERE SAVAGE ALIENS \'M AFEERED IT'D GE ToO BIG A SHOCK FER Wy THE OL GAL, SUT! GEG, WELL SIMPLY NEVER GET To MAKE THAT Bo, TRIP NOW, Win ri AWAY, L MEAN JPL BE CHAINED: a 8 RI DASSENT ISK IT “Th piRACHT ES TOEARTH? WITH THE SPEED OF A LIGHTWEIGHT RED MOVES IN, HIS LONG, LOOPING RIGHT LANOING ON BEN’S TORTLRED RIB... I RECKON IT WOULD BE RIGHT SMART OF A SHOCK TO LOWEEZY IF YE STARTED PLOWIN' AFTER ALL THESE YEARS i a a i Zz? ny ad Be F. You LOOK TIRED/- THIS HOUSEWORK IS GETTING You DOWN !-- WHAT YOU NEED IS A ae YOAV THAT'S UP TO\ NOL MANDRAKE / WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ? I THOUGHT I WAS AGONER--BUT THE PARACHUTE OPENED. THE MISSING| = WITH DESPERATE STRENGTH AND COURAGE, BEN, HALF BLINDED WITH PAIN, THROWS 4 LONG, HARD RIGHT TO RED'S 4 YAW IT HURTS THE CHAMPION «+. (TS MY PORE OL \ OH, SHORE== GE EXTRY MULE I Wuz THINKIN’ ABOUT / SHOCK OL AUNT SUKEY- Ov AUNT KEERFUL YE DON'T GOOD MULES IS HARD TO FIND! )/ How Asour A NICE BOAT TRIP? +-1'LL TAY COME ON, WHAT-AR WE WAITING For NOdUOD HSV1I LTO Nad Did WOLNVHd AHI NVISIDWW FHL AAVYAGNVW 3TDOOD AINNVA AHLVA dN ONIONINA Navy Surgeon Makes History In Front Lines Spectacular | | | New Operation ; Cuts Amputations i By Two-Thirds i tions by two-thirds, has made front- line medical history with the Ma-|} rines. Scores of Leathernecks are walk- | ing again, using arms and hands} ‘normally, who might otherwise be | experimenting with artificial limbs. | Lieutenant Frank C. Spencer, jis credited with through use of arterial {gery. A severed blood ve: Paired by sew’ e of un- damaged artery to each end of the} damaged blood vessel. These come | from “artery banks” stocked from | limbs so badly mangled amputa-| tion was essential. | Spencer. performed more than 80 arterial graft operations with the} Ist Marines. In more than 65 cases | the arm or leg of the wounded man has been saved. Spencer is chief surgeon of Easy Medical Company of the ist M Tine Division. It is one of t | such outfits manned by Navy doct- | ors and enlisted corpsmen on the | Marine sector. | The arterial ri new to the Kor | | air operation is War, It was timate that one- {third of all amputations in World War II resulted from inability to repair blood vessels of wounded men at or near the front. Here, in Spencer’s words, is a description of the operation: | “When an artery is wounded, the | missile destroys a section of it What is needed is a tube to re- connect the two ends -- to bridge | the gap resulting from damage to the blood vessel. “The arterial grafts are sewed in} place with very small stitche. that the connection will be water- | tight to let the blood pass through: in about one month and usually the Patient is walking in about three | weeks after surg Popular Songs | Featured In New Pictures | By BOB THOMAS ! HOLLYWOD i — The movies} i spiring a volume of popular records, but it’s not be- ¢ause of musicals. The dramas are | doing the sell Film musicals forth a number of hit s records. But somethin, pened. For one thing, the scores | for movies haven't produced the | singable tunes of yore. Also, the music business iS become a topsy-turvy world jingles, cornball tunes ngs and become hits. Now comes a new wrinkle | scores of dra {producing songs click. This is nothing ne old days, The are In the and over again for a haunting} Laura.” The of the picture, Raksin, was | Mercer, and the ) aim OOSID AHL aMNI WUVZO | coor a Chapter 9 N {ANDELL stood where he was Vi a moment longer, then walked down the hall to the steel | door opening on the fire well. He | was in too deep now to turn back. On the fourth-floor landing Mancell paused, remembering that killer had fled down the fire 1. He walked on more slowly. e had nothing to fear from the iller. Or had he? He looked at he expensive watch he’d bought fter his fight with Gus Lesne- vich. The man had been gone for ten minutes. * He opened the fire door into the foyer. A uniformed starter was ch g a name in the directory wall. He nodded when he fandell. “Good morning.” “Good morn: | swered. He st ke his hand out of his pocket and re- nembered just in time. “Say. r if you'd tell me some- | ” the starter asked. f the fire Ss ago?” The starter shook his head. “T wouldn’t know, mister. I just this minute came on duty.” He really looked at Mandell for the first time. “You a tenant of this build- ing ook his head. “No.” stopped to talk j ow he'd aroused icions. The man t. A quarter block he looked back. nding on the a him. ked on, even faster. een minutes before found. It might be ght be five hours. When he was found, the police J pick him up again, but un- til then he would be with Gale. sed the Palace Theatre a aited for the light to change on the corner of La’ Salle Street. When the light turned green, he walked op with the crowd, and a sudden gust of wind tugged his OR KILL By Day Keene expensive, two-year-old-hat from his head. Mandell grabbed for it | and missed. A man walking west | tried to stop it. The man behind him caught it and picked it up. A stolid, unsmiling man, he au- tomatically brush: it with his sleeve. Then, as if suddenly frightened, he pushed the fawn- colored hat into Mandell’s ex- tended hand and hurried on, al- jternately looking back over his shoulder and down at the sticky substance og his fingers. Mandell stood rooted to the pavement, looking at his hat, ig- noring the jostling crowd around him. Part of the hat’s underbrim was as smeared with blood as the sleeve of his topcoat. But it hadn’t been blood that had puzzled the starter, It hadn’t been blood that had frightened ithe man who picked up his hat. | There were two neat round holes punched in the crown. Bullet | holes. The light changed from green to red. Car horns blasting in his ears, Mandell walked on to the curb. 3 The blood was easily explained. The blood belonged to Mr. Curtis. But how explain the two bullet holes? A new fear nagged at Mandell’s tired mind. Had the | killer been shooting at him or at |Mr. Curtis? Which one of them jhad the man in the doorway meant to kill? At whom had the man been shooting? Outside of Mr. Curtis’ shouting, “Down! Hit the floor, Barney!” no words had been spoken, There had been only the click of the jlight switch ‘and the burst. of shots. But the two shots that had | of his hat hadn't been fired at Mr. ; Curtis. Mr, Curtis had been stand- ing in front of the window, near | the file case, on the far side of the room. Mandell looked across the street at the windows of his hotel, the hotel where Gale was waiting, back of one of the closed win- | dows. He felt suddenly drained |and cheated. He couldn't go to punched holes through the crown / | Gale. When Gale saw the blood ;on his topcoat and the bullet in his hat, she would ask more ques- tions than the police. NEW YORK (#—Father’s Day is on the horizon, and slready fathers are feeling sheepish about it. They are not sure whether they like a day in their honor. Or at least they pretend to feel this way. “It, just means I /will be sand- ‘bagged by all those odd presents I escaped last, Christmas — the strange gifts women think men want. And of course naturally, I'll have to take on over everything the kids gave me.” Father is not used to being a hero in this civilization, even for a day. It is a bit different with Mother’s Day. Motherhood is a symbol of lonely beroism in any used to bring| age, and a true symbol. But for} some reason nobody, so far as I hap-| know, has ever built a statue to| abeth Palmer North has “The Pioneer Father.” There should be such a statue. If I designed it, it would be a tired, patient old but!, the wrinkles in which inane! of muscled duty .showing in his | brood against the wolves of life and time. I have never been a father. But too. I appreciated bim before his I think he knew. Men often foo things neither puts into words. ». n so, I have always regreti« t say more to my dad. t to tell your heart. A * this only for sons whe e still alive, to who: send their love alon, sending them that necktie, y dad was a coal miner’s son ¢ up rough and strong. He ed young, sired foug sons , and—a later sweet sur a lovely daughter, De « was the ble g of his later and he wo! hard work at 48. Boys f trouble to a father ughter is a comfort. A to be g man at 5, and in himseis and be stab- days father feel his | er restores her | ting with her yearning for youth be sons gave dad more than of woes, although none robbed a bank or re was al nderst ar that a boy him, at least, s heart to! | ‘The operation takes from two to four hours. “Complete recovery is expected ; but there were a couple of years when dad didn’t get a new suit. There must be milions of Amer- ieans who on this Father’s Day will recall warmly the dad that isn’t there to praise. This is the flower of remembrance 1 would plant | upon my own loved one’s grave: “Life may not have given you what you wanted. But you are not forgotten, after these years, by these you created—and stood by. If I were a dad 1 could only ask ;I might be as fine a one as you |were. One of your sons, speaking for all of your children.” Divorce Granted SARASOTA, Fla. W~Mrs, Eliz- been | granted a divorce from Henry Ringling North, vice president of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum j\& Bailey Cirous. moathly. | Mrs. North charged her husband | was guilty of mental cruelty in that records that my old man was, and a good one, | he consorted with an Italian wom- ‘an in Rome by the name of movies used to have: death, more than 15 years ago, but| Micheline Muselli, bought expen- theme songs that were played over , 1 never really told him so, although | sive luggage ‘or a woman in Miami; admitted associating with » other women and refused to stay with her when he was in Sarasota. rossword Puzzle Sewing ACROSS 1 Always 5. Expression of disgust 8 Harbor 12. Split 13. Greek letter 14 Assert positively 18. Take a char 19. Poisonous serpent 21. Bronze in the sun ‘22. Showering 25. Improve 27. Individual The final decree cells for a set-| 1 shout- | fly-bitten shoulders, as he bent his | tlement of $16,500 ana $400 a month ing singers in echo chambers have | horns down to protect his mate and | alimony. She had asked for $1,000 HE felt in his pocket for a ciga-° rette and found he had none. He had no cigarettes and no money. After all the thousands of dollars he'd made, he couldn't even buy a package of cigarettes, a cup of fee. He walked on, scanning the store fronts. A few doors south of Chicago Avenue he found a pawn- shop open. “Yes, sir. What can I do for you?” Mandell sli his watch from his wrist and laid it on a purple velvet pad on the counter. “I'd like five hundred on the watch.” “That’s a lot of money,” the pawnbroker said. He screwed a jJeweler’s giass in his eye and pried off the back of the watch. The —— was warm and smelled like a pawnshop. Man- dell shifted his topcoat to his other arm. “I paid two thousand dollars for it. re are six dia- monds in the dial.” The pawnbroker reversed the watch and looked at the diamonds eee his glass. Then he took the glass out of his eye, ssed the back on the watch, laid it on the pad. “I can’t go for five hundred, mister. But I can let you have three hundred.” —* “Tl take it,” Mandell said. The pawnbroker filled out a ticket and gave Mandell a card to sign when he got the money’from again, ie a package of cigarettes in a pt ng then stood on the corner of Chicago Avenue, debai what to do, Flipping his Spe into the street, he thrust two fingers into his mouth and whistled down a cruising cab. a “Wentworth and Thirty-eighth,” he told the driver. “Til tell you where from there.” As he settled his bulk against the leather up- holstery, he “And some- where along the line, I want to buy a box of candy and some flowers.” 2 ~“Right,” the driver said, He knew his celebrities. “Say, you're Barney Mandell, aren’t you?” Mandell rode holding his top- coat on his lap. “That's right.” “They let you out of jail, huh?” “So it would seem.” (Te be contineed) No Reconciliation HOLLYWOOD —The recent dinner dates actress Helen Walker had with her divorced mate, Ed- ward N. du Domaine, didn’t mean a thing, for Tuesday she ob- tained her final decree. When she obtained her preliminary decree jJune 10, 1952, she testified that Du Domaine, her second husband, “resented everything about me.” They were wed in 1950. Builds Own TV Station CALGARY, Alberta (&) — It's a simple chore to build your own television transmitter and receiver if you have a thorough knowledge of electronics, the necessary ex- pensive equipment and a few hun- anything unusual, he has built what is believed the first amateur television receiver and transmitter in Aiberta. The 47-year old electricity teacher at 's Western Canada High isa yaa ga topilight expert on elec- ics. While he regards the construc- tion of a normal TV receiver as child’s play, Allan admits transmitting equipment difficult. The was that of movie projector into a era” to transmit the film. | The name of the island of Jama- ‘ica in the West Indies derives from the Indian work “Xaymaca” (Isle of Fountains). the was more he faced 2 Imm. 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